The Clarion
Volume 77, Issue 25
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April 6, 2012
President speaks on college changes
By Patrick G. Veilleux
Managing Editor
Brevard College President David Joyce
spoke to the Clarion on March 30 about the
tuition increase in the Fall semester. He also
told the newspaper about projects around
campus, including the highly anticipated
construction of the student plaza between
the Moore’s Science Building and the Myers
Dining Hall.
“It’s roughly a five percent increase, that’s
average for private schools. State schools will
be higher. It’s to accommodate all the things
that are going up; it’s not that we want to
charge more,’’ Joyce said.
Across North Carolina, colleges and
universities will be increasing their tuitions
to account for a changing economy. The
institution does not want to charge more than
what is reasonable, and it is trying to adapt to
the rising cost of running a college.
“We are hoping to be able to give a modest
raise to staff and faculty this year—there
hasn’t been one for them in five years. I think
health insurance is going up significantly,
and we all know about gas prices and
transportation. Those things alone have gone
up more than five percent,” Joyce said.
While BC has to increase tuition to account
for some goods and services, it will be trying
to cut back on spending in other regards. The
tuition increase will also likely account for
the change in food service providers that the
community will see in the Fall semester.
“What we have now is good,” Joyce said. “I
like the food, I like the people, but we want to
take this to the next level, all of our options
will cost more than what we are currently
paying. The search is going real well but we
haven’t picked the service and we are still
negotiating. It will be a hard decision to make
and there is a cost implication.”
See 'Presidential update,' page 3
Thea Dunn
The ground has “broken” on the student plaza between Myers Dining Haii and Moore Science building, as workers ripped up asphait
using heavy equipment aiready on campus to renovate the president’s home. The oid asphait will be recycled and used for repaving
some of the roads on campus.